For years I thought I was missing out by not having acclimated to modern IDEs like JetBrains or Visual Studio Code. I find features like autocomplete aggravatingly distracting, and when I want to do something the IDE or a plugin didn't account for, it often becomes a manual process.
By contrast, with Emacs, I can simply omit the addition of features that distract me from the code, and I can automate away manual workflow pain points with a few lines of Emacs Lisp, evaluating them right in my running editor and saving them off.
But I wondered if that was some sort of Bruce Tognazzini "your brain is gaslighting you, and you're leaving productivity on the table by not using the objectively superior UI" type phenomenon. Based on this research... well, I guess not. Comforting to know.
For years I thought I was missing out by not having acclimated to modern IDEs like JetBrains or Visual Studio Code. I find features like autocomplete aggravatingly distracting, and when I want to do something the IDE or a plugin didn't account for, it often becomes a manual process.
By contrast, with Emacs, I can simply omit the addition of features that distract me from the code, and I can automate away manual workflow pain points with a few lines of Emacs Lisp, evaluating them right in my running editor and saving them off.
But I wondered if that was some sort of Bruce Tognazzini "your brain is gaslighting you, and you're leaving productivity on the table by not using the objectively superior UI" type phenomenon. Based on this research... well, I guess not. Comforting to know.